This weekend was spent at Whistler BC.br /br /Margaret was attending the a href="http://www.cccski.com/dbfiles/1423.pdf" target="_blank"2009 FIS Trainers Seminar/a, and I was a href="http://www.whistler.com/pdf/maps/whistler_bike_trails.pdf" target="_b...
Bend Oregon is a great place to be right now if you are a cross-country skier...and even if you aren't a skier! The weather has been amazing this past week, with temps in the mid 70's! Each day begins bright and early at 6am on the dot and brings us ...
Heading out on a crust ski! Mt. Bachelor is in the background but for Sunday's crust ski our destination was Broken Top, to the North of Bachelor. I spent the previous week doing some on snow training down in Bend, OR. Most of the training was techniqu...
Heading out on a crust ski! Mt. Bachelor is in the background but for Sunday's crust ski our destination was Broken Top, to the North of Bachelor. I spent the previous week doing some on snow training down in Bend, OR. Most of the training was techniqu...
Heading out on a crust ski! Mt. Bachelor is in the background but for Sunday's crust ski our destination was Broken Top, to the North of Bachelor. I spent the previous week doing some on snow training down in Bend, OR. Most of the training was techniqu...
Heading out on a crust ski! Mt. Bachelor is in the background but for Sunday's crust ski our destination was Broken Top, to the North of Bachelor. I spent the previous week doing some on snow training down in Bend, OR. Most of the training was techniqu...
pspan style="font-size:85%;" Bend, Oregon is the place to be right now. The weather is beautiful, the snow is plentiful and the training has been fantastic. I am taking advantage of the USST organizing grooming ...
Training has been going exceptionally well here in Bend, with sunny skies and warm temperatures greeting us every morning at the mountain. We've gotten some great technique work done, as well as a couple strength workouts where we experimented with new...
Recently Andy Newell participated in a
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BEND, OR – Following a season of incredible success, including Kikkan Randall’s (Anchorage, AK) World Championship silver medal, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team reunited this week in Oregon to begin its training season in the lead up to the 2010 Olympics. “It’s an early camp, so we’re really trying to lay down base fitness. We’re also working on technique with each individual working on their weaknesses at the moment,” Cross Country Head coach Pete...
CXC Masters Team was established two years ago as an outreach mechanism to promote cross country skiing and as a fundraising opportunity for the CXC Youth Program while providing unique opportunities to Master skiers around the region. This year the CXC Masters Team is expanding programming by establishing specific chapters around the region. CXC coaches will be assigned to each chapter to work with Master skiers in group and individual settings. Each chapter will have...
ttspan style="font-size:85%;"Hey everyone-br /br / Monday night we had our second annual roller ski and end of the year team banquet at my house in the Champlain Valley. We had great weather and almost all of the athletes in attendance. This was a real...
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FasterSkier Cross-Country Skier of the Year This award is given to the top North American cross-country skier. Cross-Country Skier of the Year (women): Kikkan Randall (USA). Kikkan’s season got off to a slow start, but she stepped it up when it mattered most, winning the first Championship medal ever by a US woman, when she took the Silver at the World Championships in Liberec. This race netted her the FasterSKier Performance of the Year. In...
A number of high-tech innovations will be used at the Olympics – in some cases to add accuracy to scoring and timing, and in others, to enhance the spectator experience. Including: – A high-definition judges’ scoring system to be used in figure skating. – A high-definition video replay system to be used in short-track speed skating. – Global positioning technology to follow the progress of cross-country skiers. – RFID technology for ski-cross and snowboard-cross events....
Click HERE to view an article about the Silent Sports May Athlete of the Month! I’d like to say a BIG thank you to Lee Borowski for taking the time to nominate me and write this wonderful article. I’d also like to thank Lee for all of the help he gave me as a developing high [...]